Mouse Scout Series
Including Mouse Scouts and Mouse Scouts Make a Difference
Including Mouse Scouts and Mouse Scouts Make a Difference
By Sarah Dillard
Hardcover Paper Books
ISBN: 978-0-385-756-3-7 and
978-0-385-75599-3
Published by Knopf
Fiction – Children
Lessons in Creativity
and Doing Good!
Mouse Scouts Ideal Annual Gift for Kids
Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson,
columnist and reviewer for MyShelf.Com and author of multi award-winning
fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry,
and the HowToDoIt Series of books for writers
and the HowToDoIt Series of books for writers
If you are not a grade school
teacher, you may not have thought of using trash as a teaching tool. If you are
not an artist with a penchant for collage or sculpture (or your name isn’t Bill
Nye the Science Guy), you may not have thought about turning castoff straws
into musical instruments, siphons, or hoses.
Violet, Tigerlily, and their scouting
pals from Sarah Dillard’s Mouse Scouts
are back in Mouse Scouts Make a
Difference to help parents, kids, and teachers with fun new ideas for ways
to make a difference in the world.
This second little book
includes ideas for repurposing bottle caps, fast-food containers, water
bottles, old mouse pads from Mom’s computer, and—if you’re a mouse—mousetraps used
as rowing machines!
This is makes a lovely giftbook
for children with parents who want their children to think creatively, compassionately,
and universally. It is also a book that
may encourage parents and children everywhere to take scouting more seriously.
In fact, make the two of them the beginnings of a Mouse Scouts library.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
is a mother, grandmother and former teacher.
She is the author of multi award-winning fiction and poetry and the
HowToDoItFrugally Series of books—one series for writers and one for retailers.
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Thank you for the wonderful words about my Mouse Scout books! I just want to let you know that there are now THREE books! Mouse Scouts Camp Out came out in October! This time the Scouts hit the trail and learn a little about surviving the great outdoors!
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Sarah Dillard
Clever idea for a book. Kids need to be reminded that there is treasure in what looks like garbage. When I was a kid, I made things out of all sorts of cast-off items.
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